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Elley, Warwick B. – 1997
This paper presents some empirical findings on language acquisition and learning, relates them to other research studies on the same topics, and draws some conclusions about the conditions in which optimal language learning occurs. The paper's focus is on the acquisition of vocabulary and grammar. The debate about the role of incidental learning…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Incidental Learning, Language Acquisition, Language Research
Battersby, Sarah E.; Golledge, Reginald G.; Marsh, Meredith J. – Journal of Geography, 2006
In this paper, the authors evaluate map overlay, a concept central to geospatial thinking, to determine how it is naively and technically understood, as well as to identify when it is leaner innately. The evaluation is supported by results from studies at three grade levels to show the progression of incidentally learned geospatial knowledge as…
Descriptors: Incidental Learning, Elementary Secondary Education, Geography Instruction, Learning Processes
Buchmann, Margret – 1989
The idea that breaks from experience are necessary and salutary in teacher education is a response to an enduring problem of teacher education: the fact that aspiring teachers come to their preparation with set ideas about teaching, learning, and schooling that fit with the larger ideal and institutional order into which they were born. Typically,…
Descriptors: Change Strategies, Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education

Konopak, Bonnie; And Others – Reading Psychology, 1987
Examines whether students spontaneously focus on and acquire meanings for unknown words encountered in text. Indicates that, while the intentional learning group made the greatest gains, the incidental learning group acquired some knowledge and confidence. Shows that the control group gained little in either case. Provides support for incidental…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Content Area Reading, Context Clues, Elementary Secondary Education